If you like British dramas that are depressing, have no beautiful actors and are particularly negative, I can recommend one here. Well, there is such a British drama, the actors are about as good-looking as passers-by, the tones are dull, the theme is depressing, the villains are hideous, and the criminal police are boring and boring, but they are very good-looking.
This is "Unforgotten" (Unforgotten), the plot of the play can be summed up in one paragraph:
A long-buried body was dug up in an old house. After trace inspection, it was found that it was Jimmy, a man of color who disappeared around 1976. Forty years ago, people related to Jimmy were found by the police one by one. When they came out, some people became rich men with titles, some people lived a peaceful life with Zijiao, and there were also clergymen, volunteers who were keen on youth education... These old people were found one by one. This long-buried case has come to light in the world. The old bad guys have finally been disguised. It's just that some people have finally changed their wickedness and corrected themselves in the passage of time, and some people have never changed their nature.
JIMMY is a boy of half black blood. Because of his unbearable father's domestic violence and mother's alcoholism at home, he went to London alone to seek a living at the age of 17. The 1970s was an era full of discrimination against people of color, just because of skin color It is possible to be beaten, scolded and cast aside on the street, one can imagine how difficult JIMMY's life is. After he disappeared, his mother repeatedly went to the police station to report the case, but the police did not take it seriously. It was not until his body was exhumed 40 years later that the detectives began to find him 40 years ago when they solved the case. People around you to restore the truth.
The streets of London in the 1970s were definitely not paradise. The underworld lent money in a grandiose manner, and dared to greet all kinds of torture when collecting debts. People of color were engaged in the civil rights movement, and the mad people spared no effort to discriminate against black people. Of course, it was even more terrifying. What's important is the attitude towards homosexuality. At that time, the corrupt society sent people with homosexual tendencies to electric shock, similar to our Yuzhang Academy.
The detectives searched for the people around Jimmy one by one. Sorry, they happened to be bad people. There is a delinquent girl named Beth (Elithabeth), who ran away from home at the age of 14 or 5 and lived in a cheap hotel. Her boyfriend was a violent teenager who was kidnapped. Of course, these bad boys especially like to attack people of color. Father Robert, although a clergyman and married to a daughter-in-law, has an affair with an underage girl, Jojo. Accountant Eric and his seemingly gentle wife Claire have a happy family, but Eric fights every so often. Seeing that he has a family and children, it is not a fuel-efficient lamp. There is also a gangster's younger brother, Frank, who is good at picking up people's fingers with pliers when collecting debts.
Forty years have gone by like arrows, time has passed, red cherries, green bananas, bad girl Beth married a black man, and is also keen to do various volunteer activities in the black community, forming a black youth football team, so is she in? Confess the mistakes you made when you were young and ignorant? What crime did she commit in the first place? So she likes to bully people of color, did she secretly kill Jimmy with her boyfriend and bury her body?
Father Robert has become a model worker in the community and the head of the family. He is always working and working, but his hands and feet seem to be not very clean. The accounts of the church he is in charge of are unclear, and he secretly takes his wife's jewelry. And Jojo who had a private meeting with him happened to be Jimmy's girlfriend. Could it be that his relationship with Jojo was broken by Jimmy, so that he had to kill Jimmy?
Frank has transformed himself from a debt collector from an underworld to a red-topped businessman in front of the Prime Minister, who is in charge of a listed company and is known as a jazz to the outside world. Jimmy borrowed £50 from him 40 years ago and was robbed by Beth's bad boyfriend. Could it be that he failed to collect the debt and did it?
Although Eric is in a wheelchair, his wife is filial, and his wife Claire has dementia, but Eric is determined not to move to a nursing home. Although it seems that he and Claire are about to celebrate their golden wedding, he seems to be a little prone to domestic violence in private, and He was deeply homophobic in his youth and had a history of violence against homosexuals. Although Jimmy has a girlfriend, when he first arrived in London, he was forced to deal with the "boy-boy" flesh business. Could it be that the homophobic Eric couldn't bear it for a while when he saw Jimmy's indecent behavior?
Look, the bad guys are old, but the blood debt of forty years ago is always waiting to judge you, don't think you can do whatever you want when you are young?
The answer is none of the above. In fact, it was Eric's seemingly gentle wife, Claire, who killed Jimmy. Sure enough, all homophobic people were in the closet. Eric was a gay man. Eric's other gay man was buried in the garden of Eric's house, also stabbed to death by his wife when he found out he was having an affair. So homosexuals should bravely come out of the closet and don't go into marriage. When the time comes, they will harm others and themselves and passers-by, which will be miserable.
Oh no, that is now. Forty years ago, you must never come out of the closet. Electric shock is waiting for you, discrimination is waiting for you. Although Bai Zuo is now in power, and the LGBT rainbow flag is flying on the soil of the corrupt country, don't think it has always been like this. Many people don't like "Bai Zuo", they are too sensitive, too virgin, too hypocritical, but seriously, at least Bai Zuo is corrected based on sincere repentance, and they don't like Bai Zuo because you haven't experienced being raped. discriminate.
The case-solving technique in Unforgotten is very... not cool, just honestly making phone calls, doing interviews, taking notes, and then silently pulling the strings out of every possibility. But it is very solid. Follow the police detectives who are neither young nor beautiful to see the various situations of "bad people" when they grow old, and see how a child from a disadvantaged group has been buried underground for decades. , to see how terrible the world would be if one did not reflect, if the past evil deeds were so easily forgotten.
Unforgettable, malice should never be forgotten
—To the forgetful people.
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